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enforcement and systemic change. after george floyd said never again, yet here we are. i will ask what he and his colleagues plan to do next time. and if there is will, what is the way to fix this country s broken system. this is american voices. we begin this hour with new action from the memphis police department following the deadly police beating of tyre nichols. memphis pd eight now deactivating the departments scorpion unit which was launched in 2021 to fight the city s rising murder rate. nbc news confirms all five officers charged with second degree murder in nichols death were members of the scorpion unit. this also raises new questions. why would a unit focused on violent crime take their time to enforce traffic violations? this beating all started with a traffic stop, officers at the time said the 29 year old was driving recklessly. the department has since said no video evidence backs of that claim. now i need to warn you that the video you re about to see ....
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Been seeing for a decade, it s in the individual officers hate of black people or other minorities, it is not the americas police departments deploy and train their officers to view everyday citizens as either threats to the officer safety, or disruptions to an orderly society. resulting in altercations escalating needlessly into killings. rashad, your thoughts? yes. to take it a little bit further, we then have a system that rewards, allows, and doesn t punish folks for it. so it is not just that the system creates it, it is that it actually incentivizes it. and the problem with some of these choices, stopping at some of these choices of just firing, so yes we fire, yes we deal with getting rid of the scorpion unit. that was part of the demands of local organizers, and the demands of color of ....
Director of aclu of louisiana. msnbc law enforcement analyst and retired police chief, carmen best, rashad robertson, president of color of change, and national reporter for nbc news, beyond j hampton. carmen, i want to start with these new developments about these scorpion unit. what do you make of the departments move to disband them? considering all that we have seen, it makes sense to me that they would get rid of that unit at this point. there s still should be a very thorough investigation of all arrests, detentions, uses of force, complaints and everything else that occurred within the unit. but considering what we saw, happen with that unit, the plant and disregard for policy, and the disregard for human life for that matter, it makes sense to me why they would disband the unit at this time. we have seen protests across this country, and we have seen more protests in memphis. what are you seeing and what are you hearing from members of this community? they have been prote ....